Modern Insights on an Old Lenten Practice
Like many in the secular world, in recent years I’ve rediscovered the value of fasting. But as a Catholic I’ve sought to apply to the age-old spiritual tradition some newer insights into its benefits. As part of my graduate studies in the field of nutrition, I’ve dug deeper into the physiology of fasting in order […]
It happened suddenly. My 49-year-old husband with whom I had been talking just a few minutes before was undergoing some kind of seizure, stopped breathing a few times, and was unconscious. The ambulance whisked him away to the hospital where he had a second massive heart-attack. The cardiologist was preparing me for the worst. My […]
It was a weekend in the last Lenten season and the strict lockdown for Covid-19 had just begun. I could not get my mind off of a friend of our religious community who was lying at home dying from a second massive stroke in a few months. The doctors said there was nothing more they […]
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